Brett Scholz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 225170 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brett Scholz |
| NOMBRES | Brett |
| APELLIDO | Scholz |
| FIRMA | SCHOLZ B |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2819-994X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
From community engagement to lived experience leadership
Community responses are essential to achieving the global goal of Ending AIDS by 2030, yet men who have sex with men (MSM) remain underrepresented and often tokenized within HIV initiatives. While community engagement is widely emphasized, far less attention has been given to leadership rooted in lived experience. Meaningful community engagement requires recognizing MSM not merely as a target population, but as leaders shaping HIV responses. This…
Psychology educators’ perspectives on partnering with people with lived experience in psychology training
Policy requires that mental health consumers be involved in all aspects of mental health service and delivery, including training. The extent to which consumer involvement has been part of psychology training varies across and within programmes but has generally been limited. The overarching aim of the present study was to extend understandings of psychology educators’ willingness and attitudes to partnering with consumers to deliver psychology t…
Physical Health and Health Behaviours of Australians with Psychosis
People living with psychosis live up to 20 years less compared to the general population. Cardiometabolic ill-health and barriers to health-related behaviour are significant contributors. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study of cardiometabolic health and health behaviours of consumers attending a public community mental health service in an Australian city. One hundred and fourteen consumers currently living with psychosis participated. St…
Perceptions of children's participation as patients in health interactions
Children who actively participate in their health interactions benefit from greater likelihood of better health outcomes, and development of competency, autonomy and decision‐making skills. However, children are often passive participants in their health care. This study aims to improve understandings of child patients', parents' and health professionals' perceptions of children's participation as patients in health interactions, through a theore…
It’s a very conflicting thing for me
Purpose As a significant minority, there are particular challenges faced by Asian immigrants that impact the well-being and mental health help-seeking. There is limited understanding about the help-seeking behaviours of second-generation and 1.5-generation Asian immigrants (those who immigrated as children), particularly in Australia. This study aims to explore how the identities of 1.5 and second-generation Asian Australians shape their help-see…
Because of HIV, It Opened My Mind
Previous work has demonstrated that gay, bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) living with HIV are likely to experience intersectional stigma. However, mainstream systems often fail to recognize how power and privilege shape this experience. Such a complex psychological phenomenon requires an in-depth reflective inquiry that acknowledges individuals as experts in their own experiences. To explicate this matter, this study aimed …
‘The Norm Is to Not Openly Collaborate’
INTRODUCTION: In 2020, surging cases of COVID-19 meant that health services had to plan for crisis-level triage. In the Australian Capital Territory, the Clinical Health Emergency Coordination Centre sought to develop a triage policy in collaboration with a range of consumer, carer and community groups. This study aims to map the collaborative development of the COVID-19 ICU triage policy onto the principles of co-production. METHODS: Interviews …
From member checking to collaborative reflection
The importance of engaging participants collaboratively in knowledge production is increasingly emphasised.We reflect on our use of a form of member checking to inform future research directions.We invited clinicians to participate in indepth interviews to reflect on a plain language summary of the results and recommendations from an initial study in which they had participated.Our aim was not to modify those results, but to invite reflection, sc…
From a Single Voice to Diversity
There has been a growing emphasis on consumer representation in the development of health policy, services, research, and education. Existing literature has critiqued how discourses of representativeness can disempower consumers working in health systems. The context of the current study is consumer engagement in the development of COVID-19 triage policy and practice in a local health service. Consumer engagement has often been an afterthought in…
Using photovoice to explore Bolivian children’s experiences of Covid-19
Our capacity to facilitate the empowerment of children is dependent on our ability to understand their values and experiences. This study aimed to explore Bolivian children’s experiences of COVID-19. This study used a participatory action research method, photovoice, which involved focus groups, individual interviews and the use of cameras by participants to capture their reality and express their ideas through photographs. Ten participants aged …
“It Breaks the Ice”
Background: Most research on drinking games (DG) behaviors and cognitions has been conducted among university students from the United States. Understanding why DGs are played, consequences and protective behavioral strategies (PBS) to reduce negative consequences is needed among Australian students. Objectives: In Australia, five focus groups (n=3-8) were held with 27 university students (63% female) aged 18-24 years who had played a DG in the p…
We were all looking for the magic pill”
These findings emphasise the importance of patient-provider communication and taking a patient-centred approach to gabapentinoid prescribing and de-prescribing. Future qualitative research in this area should involve primary care providers to gain a better understanding of factors driving increased gabapentinoid prescribing in chronic pain management as well as barriers to patient education
Qualitative Story Completion
Qualitative story completion (QSC) is an innovative research method that offers researchers a range of unique opportunities for generating and analysing data. Participants are asked to write a 'story' in response to a hypothetical 'story stem', often in the third-person and involving fictional characters, rather than reporting on their direct experiences. QSC is being developed and increasingly taken up by researchers working across a range of fi…
An exploratory study of men’s access to mental health services
Men with mental ill health face multiple barriers to accessing support services. While there is existing work specifically addressing men’s individual help-seeking behaviors, health providers need to better understand broader contexts about access to mental health services. Men seeking help for health-related issues are often stigmatized, and increasingly so when seeking mental health services. This is thought to partly explain the disparities in…
Driving enrolment intention through social media engagement
Social media platforms provide prospective international students with ready access and exposure to information relevant to international higher education institutions and their respective brand images. We examined the extent to which social media engagement and electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) activities shape prospective students’ perceived brand image of institutions and, subsequently, their enrolment intention. Findings from a sample of 445 pr…
Special issue introduction – working towards allyship
In this special issue, we create space to discuss and extend on conceptualisation, theorisation, and practice of allyship in qualitative psychology research. Allyship can be defined broadly as a way of redressing power imbalances between privileged and marginalised groups and individuals and is thus strongly aligned with qualitative methods founded on social justice. The discipline of psychology, in contrast, has traditionally contributed to oppr…
My Skill Is Putting on a Mask and Convincing People Not to Look Closer”
Although anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health disorder in Australia, little is known about men’s anxiety help-seeking practices. This study investigates how male users of an online discussion forum accounted for engaging in troubles-telling in an online community. Posts on an online discussion forum written by men who identify as experiencing anxiety were analysed using discursive psychology, through the identification of four i…
I know you shouldn't compare to other people, but I can’t do anything most people can’
Despite its prevalence, men's anxiety is arguably under‐researched and poorly understood. The present study explores the reasoning provided by male posters to an online discussion forum about the source of their anxiety. Posts were collected from an Australian anxiety online discussion forum. This study utilises discursive psychology, informed by principles of membership categorisation analysis, to describe how age, occupation and family‐related …
Men’s talk about anxiety online
Although anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health disorder among Australian men, very little is known about men's experiences of living with, and seeking help for, anxiety. This article examines how male users of an online discussion forum for "anxiety" describe their anxiety in their opening posts. Of particular interest is how such descriptions attend to issues of authenticity and the types of support that men appear to be seeking…
Motivations for allyship with mental health consumer movements
People working within mental health organisations or systems but not in dedicated lived experience roles might still make contributions as allies to mental health consumer movements. The current study explores the motivations of such allies, specifically in relation to collaborations with consumers and targeting systemic change when providing support. Semi-structured interviews were held with 11 participants identified as allies to consumer movem…
I Feel Abused by My Own Mind
Men's experiences with anxiety are under-researched and poorly understood. Existing research gives little indication of how men talk about anxiety in situ, and little is known about how men describe their experiences of anxiety. Online discussion forums provide an opportunity to conduct naturalistic observations of how men describe their experiences with anxiety without the influence of a researcher. Thematic analysis, informed by principles of d…
Rhetoric of representation
Policy mandates consumer involvement in decisions at all levels of the mental health system. One barrier to this involvement is the expectation that consumers involved in systemic work represent broader consumer experiences. To examine how the rhetoric of 'representation' was used in relation to consumer involvement in mental health, a qualitative exploratory design was employed using interviews for data collection. Participants were consumers (n…
Social and material aspects of life and their impact on the physical health of people diagnosed with mental illness
BACKGROUND: People diagnosed with mental illness have shorter lives and poorer physical health, compared to the general population. These health inequities are usually viewed at an individual and clinical level, yet there is little research on the views of mental health consumers on clinical factors in broader contexts. OBJECTIVE: To elicit the views of consumers of mental health services regarding their physical health and experiences of accessi…
Males Don't Wanna Bring Anything Up To Their Doctor
Men experiencing depression may present with externalizing behaviors including avoidance, getting angry, or finding distractions rather than seeking help. General practitioners report that depression is harder to diagnose in men than in women. Research has not typically focused on men's accounts of depression; thus, the current study uses an exploratory design to better understand men's subjectivities of depression. A thematic framework informed …
We've Got to Break Down the Shame
News articles play a role in reproducing or challenging stigma. Stigma, in turn, can be a barrier to men's mental health help seeking. We used discursive analytic principles to analyze portrayals of men's communication about depression in news articles over a 5-year period. We found that news articles depicted men who were open about depression as experiencing positive outcomes such as recovery. Such depictions might challenge stigma associated w…
From member checking to collaborative reflection
The importance of engaging participants collaboratively in knowledge production is increasingly emphasised.We reflect on our use of a form of member checking to inform future research directions.We invited clinicians to participate in indepth interviews to reflect on a plain language summary of the results and recommendations from an initial study in which they had participated.Our aim was not to modify those results, but to invite reflection, sc…
Men’s talk about anxiety online
Although anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health disorder among Australian men, very little is known about men's experiences of living with, and seeking help for, anxiety. This article examines how male users of an online discussion forum for "anxiety" describe their anxiety in their opening posts. Of particular interest is how such descriptions attend to issues of authenticity and the types of support that men appear to be seeking…
Males Don't Wanna Bring Anything Up To Their Doctor
Men experiencing depression may present with externalizing behaviors including avoidance, getting angry, or finding distractions rather than seeking help. General practitioners report that depression is harder to diagnose in men than in women. Research has not typically focused on men's accounts of depression; thus, the current study uses an exploratory design to better understand men's subjectivities of depression. A thematic framework informed …
We've Got to Break Down the Shame
News articles play a role in reproducing or challenging stigma. Stigma, in turn, can be a barrier to men's mental health help seeking. We used discursive analytic principles to analyze portrayals of men's communication about depression in news articles over a 5-year period. We found that news articles depicted men who were open about depression as experiencing positive outcomes such as recovery. Such depictions might challenge stigma associated w…
Qualitative Story Completion
Qualitative story completion (QSC) is an innovative research method that offers researchers a range of unique opportunities for generating and analysing data. Participants are asked to write a 'story' in response to a hypothetical 'story stem', often in the third-person and involving fictional characters, rather than reporting on their direct experiences. QSC is being developed and increasingly taken up by researchers working across a range of fi…
Special issue introduction – working towards allyship
In this special issue, we create space to discuss and extend on conceptualisation, theorisation, and practice of allyship in qualitative psychology research. Allyship can be defined broadly as a way of redressing power imbalances between privileged and marginalised groups and individuals and is thus strongly aligned with qualitative methods founded on social justice. The discipline of psychology, in contrast, has traditionally contributed to oppr…
I know you shouldn't compare to other people, but I can’t do anything most people can’
Despite its prevalence, men's anxiety is arguably under‐researched and poorly understood. The present study explores the reasoning provided by male posters to an online discussion forum about the source of their anxiety. Posts were collected from an Australian anxiety online discussion forum. This study utilises discursive psychology, informed by principles of membership categorisation analysis, to describe how age, occupation and family‐related …
Motivations for allyship with mental health consumer movements
People working within mental health organisations or systems but not in dedicated lived experience roles might still make contributions as allies to mental health consumer movements. The current study explores the motivations of such allies, specifically in relation to collaborations with consumers and targeting systemic change when providing support. Semi-structured interviews were held with 11 participants identified as allies to consumer movem…
I Feel Abused by My Own Mind
Men's experiences with anxiety are under-researched and poorly understood. Existing research gives little indication of how men talk about anxiety in situ, and little is known about how men describe their experiences of anxiety. Online discussion forums provide an opportunity to conduct naturalistic observations of how men describe their experiences with anxiety without the influence of a researcher. Thematic analysis, informed by principles of d…
Sperm donors’ accounts of lesbian recipients
Whilst there exists a considerable body of research documenting heterosexual couples’ use of donor sperm, relatively little is known about the experiences of lesbian recipients of donor sperm and the men who donate to them. Moreover, in all aspects of donor conception there is an ongoing debate over what constitutes children’s ‘best interests’, with this being most problematic in the unregulated private sector (of which lesbian use of donor sperm…
The value and meaning attached to genetic relatedness among Australian sperm donors
While in the context of western societies sperm is attributed with a wide range of meanings, in the context of assisted reproduction it has increasingly been treated as an alienable commodity. Yet despite attempts by medical professionals to encourage a disconnect between donors and their sperm, the latter continues in many instances to operate as a synecdoche for the former. This can be seen, for example, both in donor-conceived children's desir…
Sperm donors’ accounts of lesbian recipients
Whilst there exists a considerable body of research documenting heterosexual couples’ use of donor sperm, relatively little is known about the experiences of lesbian recipients of donor sperm and the men who donate to them. Moreover, in all aspects of donor conception there is an ongoing debate over what constitutes children’s ‘best interests’, with this being most problematic in the unregulated private sector (of which lesbian use of donor sperm…
We've Got to Break Down the Shame
News articles play a role in reproducing or challenging stigma. Stigma, in turn, can be a barrier to men's mental health help seeking. We used discursive analytic principles to analyze portrayals of men's communication about depression in news articles over a 5-year period. We found that news articles depicted men who were open about depression as experiencing positive outcomes such as recovery. Such depictions might challenge stigma associated w…
Social and material aspects of life and their impact on the physical health of people diagnosed with mental illness
BACKGROUND: People diagnosed with mental illness have shorter lives and poorer physical health, compared to the general population. These health inequities are usually viewed at an individual and clinical level, yet there is little research on the views of mental health consumers on clinical factors in broader contexts. OBJECTIVE: To elicit the views of consumers of mental health services regarding their physical health and experiences of accessi…
Males Don't Wanna Bring Anything Up To Their Doctor
Men experiencing depression may present with externalizing behaviors including avoidance, getting angry, or finding distractions rather than seeking help. General practitioners report that depression is harder to diagnose in men than in women. Research has not typically focused on men's accounts of depression; thus, the current study uses an exploratory design to better understand men's subjectivities of depression. A thematic framework informed …
Rhetoric of representation
Policy mandates consumer involvement in decisions at all levels of the mental health system. One barrier to this involvement is the expectation that consumers involved in systemic work represent broader consumer experiences. To examine how the rhetoric of 'representation' was used in relation to consumer involvement in mental health, a qualitative exploratory design was employed using interviews for data collection. Participants were consumers (n…
Men’s talk about anxiety online
Although anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health disorder among Australian men, very little is known about men's experiences of living with, and seeking help for, anxiety. This article examines how male users of an online discussion forum for "anxiety" describe their anxiety in their opening posts. Of particular interest is how such descriptions attend to issues of authenticity and the types of support that men appear to be seeking…
Motivations for allyship with mental health consumer movements
People working within mental health organisations or systems but not in dedicated lived experience roles might still make contributions as allies to mental health consumer movements. The current study explores the motivations of such allies, specifically in relation to collaborations with consumers and targeting systemic change when providing support. Semi-structured interviews were held with 11 participants identified as allies to consumer movem…
I Feel Abused by My Own Mind
Men's experiences with anxiety are under-researched and poorly understood. Existing research gives little indication of how men talk about anxiety in situ, and little is known about how men describe their experiences of anxiety. Online discussion forums provide an opportunity to conduct naturalistic observations of how men describe their experiences with anxiety without the influence of a researcher. Thematic analysis, informed by principles of d…
Driving enrolment intention through social media engagement
Social media platforms provide prospective international students with ready access and exposure to information relevant to international higher education institutions and their respective brand images. We examined the extent to which social media engagement and electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) activities shape prospective students’ perceived brand image of institutions and, subsequently, their enrolment intention. Findings from a sample of 445 pr…
Special issue introduction – working towards allyship
In this special issue, we create space to discuss and extend on conceptualisation, theorisation, and practice of allyship in qualitative psychology research. Allyship can be defined broadly as a way of redressing power imbalances between privileged and marginalised groups and individuals and is thus strongly aligned with qualitative methods founded on social justice. The discipline of psychology, in contrast, has traditionally contributed to oppr…
My Skill Is Putting on a Mask and Convincing People Not to Look Closer”
Although anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health disorder in Australia, little is known about men’s anxiety help-seeking practices. This study investigates how male users of an online discussion forum accounted for engaging in troubles-telling in an online community. Posts on an online discussion forum written by men who identify as experiencing anxiety were analysed using discursive psychology, through the identification of four i…
I know you shouldn't compare to other people, but I can’t do anything most people can’
Despite its prevalence, men's anxiety is arguably under‐researched and poorly understood. The present study explores the reasoning provided by male posters to an online discussion forum about the source of their anxiety. Posts were collected from an Australian anxiety online discussion forum. This study utilises discursive psychology, informed by principles of membership categorisation analysis, to describe how age, occupation and family‐related …
An exploratory study of men’s access to mental health services
Men with mental ill health face multiple barriers to accessing support services. While there is existing work specifically addressing men’s individual help-seeking behaviors, health providers need to better understand broader contexts about access to mental health services. Men seeking help for health-related issues are often stigmatized, and increasingly so when seeking mental health services. This is thought to partly explain the disparities in…
Using photovoice to explore Bolivian children’s experiences of Covid-19
Our capacity to facilitate the empowerment of children is dependent on our ability to understand their values and experiences. This study aimed to explore Bolivian children’s experiences of COVID-19. This study used a participatory action research method, photovoice, which involved focus groups, individual interviews and the use of cameras by participants to capture their reality and express their ideas through photographs. Ten participants aged …
“It Breaks the Ice”
Background: Most research on drinking games (DG) behaviors and cognitions has been conducted among university students from the United States. Understanding why DGs are played, consequences and protective behavioral strategies (PBS) to reduce negative consequences is needed among Australian students. Objectives: In Australia, five focus groups (n=3-8) were held with 27 university students (63% female) aged 18-24 years who had played a DG in the p…
We were all looking for the magic pill”
These findings emphasise the importance of patient-provider communication and taking a patient-centred approach to gabapentinoid prescribing and de-prescribing. Future qualitative research in this area should involve primary care providers to gain a better understanding of factors driving increased gabapentinoid prescribing in chronic pain management as well as barriers to patient education
Qualitative Story Completion
Qualitative story completion (QSC) is an innovative research method that offers researchers a range of unique opportunities for generating and analysing data. Participants are asked to write a 'story' in response to a hypothetical 'story stem', often in the third-person and involving fictional characters, rather than reporting on their direct experiences. QSC is being developed and increasingly taken up by researchers working across a range of fi…
‘The Norm Is to Not Openly Collaborate’
INTRODUCTION: In 2020, surging cases of COVID-19 meant that health services had to plan for crisis-level triage. In the Australian Capital Territory, the Clinical Health Emergency Coordination Centre sought to develop a triage policy in collaboration with a range of consumer, carer and community groups. This study aims to map the collaborative development of the COVID-19 ICU triage policy onto the principles of co-production. METHODS: Interviews …
From member checking to collaborative reflection
The importance of engaging participants collaboratively in knowledge production is increasingly emphasised.We reflect on our use of a form of member checking to inform future research directions.We invited clinicians to participate in indepth interviews to reflect on a plain language summary of the results and recommendations from an initial study in which they had participated.Our aim was not to modify those results, but to invite reflection, sc…
From a Single Voice to Diversity
There has been a growing emphasis on consumer representation in the development of health policy, services, research, and education. Existing literature has critiqued how discourses of representativeness can disempower consumers working in health systems. The context of the current study is consumer engagement in the development of COVID-19 triage policy and practice in a local health service. Consumer engagement has often been an afterthought in…
Physical Health and Health Behaviours of Australians with Psychosis
People living with psychosis live up to 20 years less compared to the general population. Cardiometabolic ill-health and barriers to health-related behaviour are significant contributors. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study of cardiometabolic health and health behaviours of consumers attending a public community mental health service in an Australian city. One hundred and fourteen consumers currently living with psychosis participated. St…
Perceptions of children's participation as patients in health interactions
Children who actively participate in their health interactions benefit from greater likelihood of better health outcomes, and development of competency, autonomy and decision‐making skills. However, children are often passive participants in their health care. This study aims to improve understandings of child patients', parents' and health professionals' perceptions of children's participation as patients in health interactions, through a theore…
It’s a very conflicting thing for me
Purpose As a significant minority, there are particular challenges faced by Asian immigrants that impact the well-being and mental health help-seeking. There is limited understanding about the help-seeking behaviours of second-generation and 1.5-generation Asian immigrants (those who immigrated as children), particularly in Australia. This study aims to explore how the identities of 1.5 and second-generation Asian Australians shape their help-see…
Because of HIV, It Opened My Mind
Previous work has demonstrated that gay, bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) living with HIV are likely to experience intersectional stigma. However, mainstream systems often fail to recognize how power and privilege shape this experience. Such a complex psychological phenomenon requires an in-depth reflective inquiry that acknowledges individuals as experts in their own experiences. To explicate this matter, this study aimed …
Psychology (22 obras) · Sociology (19 obras) · Psychiatry (14 obras) · Qualitative research (13 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Mental health (7 obras) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (7 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras)